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Fourteen cases to watch from the Supreme Court’s end-of-summer “long conference”

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But the 5th Circuit wrote that this case “may … attract the [Supreme] Court’s interest” because “[i]t tees up one of the fiercest (and oldest) fights in administrative law: the Humphrey’s Executor ‘exception to the general ‘rule’ that lets a president remove subordinates at will.” Davis was convicted. Davis seeks review of that ruling.

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Profile of a potential nominee: Ketanji Brown Jackson

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In a December 2020 letter, during his presidential transition, he asked Democratic senators to recommend public defenders and civil rights lawyers, who have generally been underrepresented on the federal bench, for judgeships. When her clerkship ended, Jackson became an associate in the Boston office of a large law firm, Goodwin Procter.